> perhaps the Diamondback Ruby research would be applicable > to doing Ruby -> Duby/Surinx translation. ruby2c also does some ruby "call analysis" then conversion to static types, if that's helpful. Regarding it being impossible...I think for small inner loops you should be able to convert from ruby to duby or what not. Plus duby is turing machine complete, right... ;) -r -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.